Douggg
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Hi Marvin, the great harlot - the Vatican. Mystery, Babylon the great - something different.In chapter 17 we see religious Babylon which I equate with Roman Catholicism - likely in league in the last days with other false gospel systems such as Islam.
In chapter 18 we see economic Babylon which I equate with western economic systems including the United States and it's currencies and New York City in particular.
Do you remember the Ku KLux Klan calling itself the "invisible empire" ? Along those same lines, think of Babylon the Great as a mystical invisible empire - of Satan. Whose merchandise is wickedness and violence.
In that context, the description of the collapse of the world's economy system in Revelation 18 is being decribed "like" a great city which is destroyed and all its wealth, built on wickedness and violence of the invisible empire. The description in Revelation 18, such as seeing the smoke rise from afar off, and no more happy music, is like a parable of such a great city being destroyed. It is not a literal city, such as New York. For in the Babylon the Great, the invisible empire, is all the blood of the prophets and saints.
It will be the downfall of the world's economic system, sometime during the seven years, probably near the midpoint, and it won't be coming back. The beast ruling the world at that will take advantage to implement the 666 system.
Even now, since the 2009 crisis triggered by the mortage back securities collapse, the central banks around the world have been propping up the stock and bond markets globally, and the banking system, even buying directly stocks in the stock markets around the world. There is a day of reckoning coming soon, although it may not be the total collapse that is going to take place during the 7 years. Everything has been based on lies and manipulation.
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